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Mile 158.4 - Equilon Pipeline, St. James Sugarland Terminal Dock No. 1 and No. 2

158.4 Equilon Pipeline, St. James Sugarland Terminal Dock No. 1 and No. 2

Mile 159.5 - RBD Capline Terminal Dock No’s 1, 2, 3, and 4

159.5 RBD Capline Terminal Dock No’s 1, 2, 3, and 4

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Mile 160.0 - RBD - Chatman Town & 159.5 RBD - Burton Lane

160 RBD - Chatman Town & 159.5 RBD - Burton Lane Two African-American communities in close proximity to each other that were once surrounded by sugar cane fields but are now surrounded by giant petroleum storage tanks and a petroleum train loading and unloading facility. There is only one

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Mile 160.4 - Mosaic Uncle Sam

160.4 Mosaic Uncle Sam Mosaic’s Uncle Sam plant brings in phosphate rock from Florida and Peru. The phosphate rock is then combined with sulfuric acid to produce phosphoric acid which is shipped to Mosaic’s Faustina plant just up the river. The Uncle Sam facility sits on a

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Mile 160.7 - RBD thru 158 RBD St James Petroleum Terminals

160.7 RBD thru 158 RBD St James Petroleum Terminals It’s difficult to see it from a canoe or kayak but for almost 3 miles along the West Bank (RBD) are a continuous series of petroleum terminals making up one of the nations most important crude oil hubs. If

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Mile 160.9 - LBD SunCoke Energy Convent Marine Terminal

160.9 LBD SunCoke Energy Convent Marine Terminal SunCoke Energy just bought this coal export terminal from Raven Energy. The terminal has a unique oval shaped rail spur that surrounds the facility allowing coal trains to simply pull through to unload and end up going out back the way they

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Mile 161.5 - LBD Occidental Chemical Convent

161.5 LBD Occidental Chemical Convent This Occidental Chemical (Oxy) plant produces Chlorine, Sodium Hydroxide, Potassium Hydroxide and Ethylene Dichloride. Occidental Chemical Convent Toxic Releases (TRI) for 2013 in pounds Air: 15,319; and Water: 4. 161.5 LBD Occidental Chemical Corp

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Mile 161.0 - LBD - 158 RBD Rich Bend Crossing

161 LBD - 158 RBD Rich Bend Crossing This south-running stretch of river between Convent and St. James does not offer any easy lines of navigation for the downstream paddler. Canoes, kayaks and paddleboards will have to decide between staying exposed to fast-moving freighters mid-channel or very active docking and

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Mile 162.0 - LBD Romeville Dune

162 LBD Romeville Dune Romeville Dune is a small shelf of sand rising at a shallow incline, and offering dry location with limited space for picnicking and camping up to 25 BR. A thicket of willows grows above the dune, with a mature bottomland hardwood forest behind, creating a thin

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Mile 163.0 - LBD - Nucor Steel

163 LBD - Nucor Steel Nucor Steel, today the largest producer of steel in the United States, recently built this direct reduced iron plant making it one of the newest in the industrial corridor. Nucor plans to produce 2,500,000 tons of iron at the plant. Iron ore is

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Mile 164.5 - LBD Zen-Noh Point

164.5 LBD Zen-Noh Point Named by paddlers for the small landing and shelf of safe sand that can be found here at low water in between the long lines of barges. You can’t count on this place for a landing because it is sometimes open, and then sometimes

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Mile 165.0 - LBD Shell Beach

165 LBD Shell Beach A high bank of rangia shells rises above the river here affording a good landing that you know won’t squash under your foothold like so many muddy landings do along this stretch of river. Dry up to flood stage 35 BR. There is vehicle access